Word: leftish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...titanic press room at Dartmouth College's Moore Theater, cabinet secretaries mingled in the crowd. Unlikely pairs formed--conservative commentator Bob Novak chatted with Newsweek's leftish Jonathan H. Alter '79, who is also a Crimson editor...
Despite the leftish cast of the audience, Gore attacked Bradley for liberal proposals that he said would cost too much...
...conservative Wilmingtonians, however, multiculturalism is a loaded term, redolent of racial preferences and other leftish incursions. So the committee's recommendations have been ignored--and the committee was just disbanded by the new superintendent. After a rancorous school-board meeting in October, a board insider took Hawley aside. "You folks are getting a reputation," he said. "You're always trying to enlighten...
Shorto's sympathies lie with the movement: a chapter on leftish clerics weaving revisionism into their preaching is far more lucid than one titled "The Case Against." Yet he is at heart a synthesizer. "The trick," he notes, involves doing "two things at once: digging into history with one hand while tolling the beads of story with the other." That he does not detail the mechanics of that prestidigitation can't be held against him. Whoever shows the way to achieving it will be one of the next age's heroes...
...inhumanely low wages and reckless environmental degradation--the Third World production shortcuts that Buchanan says justify his social tariff. But Buchanan's ideology won't countenance this solution since it involves the transnational panels of adjudication that he deems inimical to sovereignty. Nor do many mainstream Republicans like this leftish solution. One reason NAFTA's environmental and labor side agreements are bare bones, and barely consequential, is that Republicans opposed putting flesh on them...